I am taking the liberty in sending you my recent message to the so-called Muslim
organization, submission, after I came across of its web site two days ago via
internet. Unfortunately, I never heard about the heretic claims of Rashad
Khalifa until lately as I was always busy in my scientific research across
Africa, Asia, Middle East and Latin America . The last time I saw Khalifa was in
1975- 76 in Tripoli , Libya , when we both were working there.
The message below summarizes my personal view about him.
Feel free to comment on the message and possibly circulating it to whom you see
fit and of concern.

Today, I just ran into your website and was astonished by the false claims
expressed by a fraudulent person by the name Dr. Rashad
Khalifa whom I happened to know personally, as we both were Egyptian
graduate students of agriculture in the US 1959-66. Again we met in Cairo
1966-1968 as we both were researchers in the Ministry of Agriculture and the
Univ of Ein-Shams and lately in Tripoli, Libya in early 1970’s as I was a
professor at Tripoli Univ and Khalifa was a researcher at the newly founded Arab
Institute for Development that was headed at the time by the ex Libyan colleague
Dr. Saad Bin-Hemid (a prof of mathematics) to attract Arab expatriates. Khalifa
was known by his continuous deception, lying, misconduct,
exploitation, and fraudulent behavior. First, he claimed to be a chemist
while the official certificates of the Bsc, Msc, PhD, indicated that he was an
agriculturist-horticulturist (Bsc from Ein-Shams Univ, Cairo , Msc, Univ of
Arizona, Tucson , and PhD , Univ of California, Riverside ). He had defected
from Egypt in 1968 under a false claim of taking his American wife to a visit to
her family in Tucson , but never returned to Egypt where we both were committed
to serve our country for a minimum of 7 years as we had government scholarships
to pursue our graduate studies in the US . Khalifa’s father, as I knew him, was
a cleric employee in Egypt with middle level education and
not an eminent Muslim Sufi as claimed by his son. Sufism in Islam is
supposed to be a way of self-discipline, meditation and fully abiding by the
letters of Shari’a laws of the Muslim holy book and the stated religious
teachings. As a young adult ( from 13 -18 years old), I was fascinated by Sufism
but later, as I found that the way it was practiced was mostly a cover of
misbehavior and misconduct, I broke away with its followers called DARAWEESH (
somehow like the nuns and monks in Catholic church misbehaving )!!. While
Khalifa was contracted to work in Libya with a very high salary under the
pretext that he is capable as a “claimed-chemist” to turn Libya into a
protein-rich and exporter country by applying a “secretive” methodology to their
vast oil resources that he failed to reveal to a committee of expersts ( of
which I was a member representing the Tripoli Univ), I faced him with the facts
to the contrary of his claims. When I pressed him to write
down details of his project including the chemical-biological procedures that he
will apply in producing protein from oil, he declined and submitted his
resignation to the director of the Institute, after a 2-y stay doing nothing
other than abusing the Libyan media and the public good-well by talking about
Islam and lecturing in TV. Suddenly the “eminent self-claimed and false chemist”
turned into a self-claimed Muslim scholar/theologian who abused the generosity
of the US society, freedom and democracy by claiming himself the awaited-for
DIVINE MESSENGER OF COVENANT, citing the Bible and the Koran!!. He amassed huge
amount of money, by donations, via deceiving many Muslim countries including the
Libyans and the Sauidis by his claim of discovering and deciphering the “Divine
Secret Code” of the Muslim book, the Koran based on a mysterious numerical
calculation using the number 19 as a base and cornerstone number ( some of the
Jews claimed something similar centuries ago). Khalifa apparently paid for his
fraudulent attitude by his life as he was assassinated by some zealous Muslim in
Tucson , Az , 1990. So he was another example of JIM
JONES, both abused financially and sexually their naïve followers as it
was later revealed by their victims. It is about time the learned societies
worldwide eradicate those NUTS………..m. elsharkawy.